RoadWorks is a mod focusing on adding the base connection infrastructure currently missing from Factorio. The mod expands on the car aspect of the game, adding features such as paved roads or speedometers.
Current features
Three kinds of pavement - cobblestone, concrete and asphalt, each increasing the speed of vehicles by a certain amount
Special fuel increasing acceleration of vehicles running on it
Limestone, new resource used to make concrete
Experimental feature: bridges (see below)
Screenshots
(make sure to view the images in full size!)
Simple gas station near a road:
A small ammunition factory with easy access to the various products:
RoadWorks doesn't add any complex new game mechanics, however, there are still some things that are good to know while playing.
At the beginning of the game, the only new item you can craft is the cobblestone path. 2 stone bricks are required for crafting 4 pieces of cobblestone path. Cars driving on cobblestone have their friction reduced by 15% and characters walk on it 45% faster.
RoadWorks also adds limestone, which is a new kind of ore used to make concrete. Once the Hydraulic Cement research is done, limestone can to be burned into quicklime, which is then mixed with water and stone in a chemical plant to make concrete. At the moment, concrete is only used in pavement crafting, but eventually it will also be used in bridge construction and possibly other recipes. Concrete pavement needs 4 concrete blocks for crafting and speeds up both cars and players by 30%. Note that you do not need the Oil Refining technology to build the chemical plants needed to create concrete.
The last kind of placeable surface in RoadWorks is the asphalt road. To make it, you must first research Road Networking, after which you can turn heavy oil to asphalt in chemical plants and then use 4 of the newly created asphalt pieces to make the asphalt road. Cars receive 45% friction reduction on asphalt roads but player characters walk only 15% faster on them.
Once you research Advanced Automobilism, you will be also able to manufacture high-octane fuel by putting together four cubes of solid fuel and a piece of sulfur. High-octane fuel is specialized for usage in car engines and raises acceleration by 35%. However, it doesn't last as long as solid fuel when used in vehicles and is much less efficient, as the 2 pieces of solid fuel used to craft it last quite a bit longer when used as fuel.
Advanced Automobilism also unlocks car instruments. When you enter a car after this research is done, a small window will appear in the top left corner showing you your current speed and the amount and kind of fuel currently loaded in the car.
Experimental Features
The current release also contains bridges, however, they are still an experimental and unfinished feature. They have been tested to work, but they aren't guaranteed to be even remotely bug-free and still use placeholder graphics. They are disabled by default, but you can enable them by going to the mod's control.lua file and changing the enableExperimentalFeatures = false line to enableExperimentalFeatures = true. Be aware that experimental features are not guaranteed to be forward-compatible and may cause problems with future versions of RoadWorks. If you want to stay safe, play with experimental features off.
Future Plans
- Improved graphics for cobblestone path, concrete pavement and especially asphalt road
- Finish bridges
- Automatic road-laying vehice
- Asphalt road with Speed bumps
- Investigate alternative bonus types for cobblestone path and concrete pavement (damage resistance? less power consumption?)
- Experiment with car gearboxes
- Try adding modular car improvements
- Mod updated for Factorio 0.11.13
- Rewrote the pavement system to use entities instead of tiles
> Balance changes:
- Cobblestone paths are now cheaper
- Asphalt pieces require less heavy oil
> Bugfixes:
- Fixed two crashbugs in a helper function
- Released a soundless version for people who experience sound-related crashes on startup
1.06 (0.10.3)
> Balance changes:
- RoadWorks intermediate recipes now work properly with productivity modules
> Bugfixes:
- Fixed two crashbugs in a helper function
- Released a soundless version for people who experience sound-related crashes on startup
1.05
- Change sound files to stereo 44k format in attempt to fix a crashbug reported by some people
- Fixed experimental features being erroneously enabled by default
1.04
- Fixed landmines being created along with pavement
1.03
> Features:
- Decorative objects (such as grasses and small rocks) are now removed when placing pavement
> Balance changes:
- Solid fuel needed for high-octane fuel production is now 4 again, but the recipe now yields 2 high-octane fuel cubes, effectively halving sulfur usage
> Bugfixes:
- Added missing migration files
1.02
- Fixed concrete pavement requiring itself to be made
1.01 (0.10.1)
> Features:
- Road surfaces now increase player's walking speed. Asphalt road gives 10% bonus, concrete pavement gives 25% bonus and cobblestone path gives 40% speed bonus.
- New sounds for walking on road surfaces
- Migration file for saves created without RoadWorks added
> Balance changes:
- Road surfaces can now be placed over buildings and cannot be placed over resources.
- High-octane fuel provides 30MJ of energy instead of 15MJ, but causes car to burn energy twice as fast
- Amount of solid fuel needed for high-octane fuel production halved (now 2)
> Bugfixes:
- Fixed a bug/exploit allowing players to replace water with pavement
- Fixed inconsistent naming of road surface items
1.00 (0.10.0)
- Initial release
Re: [0.10.0] RoadWorks
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2014 1:42 pm
by darius456
Cool, another usefull mod. Show me bridge!
Re: [0.10.0] RoadWorks
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2014 2:41 pm
by sonnyskare
It'd be interesting if you could force the cars to stay on the pavement, so we never hit any buildings.
Similar to how the train moves except you could freely move.
Re: [0.10.0] RoadWorks
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2014 5:22 pm
by Ranakastrasz
Suggest also having anti-pavement. As in, increases friction significantly.
Also, possible a setting that, I guess, changes the car's gears, which causes it to move very slowly, and take far more friction off of roads.
Also if pavement increased person movement speed it would be nice.
Re: [0.10.0] RoadWorks
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2014 5:52 pm
by OBAMA MCLAMA
its about time, thanks a lot for this mod
Re: [0.10.0] RoadWorks
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2014 8:33 pm
by theit8514
sonnyskare wrote:It'd be interesting if you could force the cars to stay on the pavement, so we never hit any buildings.
Similar to how the train moves except you could freely move.
I looked into this and it does not appear to be possible in the current modding API. The Orientation and Direction variables of entities are read-only. If they were not you could change the direction of the car using the ontick event.
Technically, you could make it where if you leave the road going over a certain speed, it would teleport you back onto the road using entity teleport method. Would look pretty strange though (and probably take a ton of CPU time).
Re: [0.10.0] RoadWorks
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2014 8:58 pm
by Rahjital
darius456 wrote:Cool, another usefull mod. Show me bridge!
Thanks! You can see the current version of bridges here: http://i.imgur.com/Mv5wVM3.png. Just remember they are still an experimental feature, so they are rather fugly and a bit buggy too. You can use them already, though, just enable the experimental features the way the first post describes.
sonnyskare wrote:It'd be interesting if you could force the cars to stay on the pavement, so we never hit any buildings.
Similar to how the train moves except you could freely move.
Theit8514 described it very well, it would be difficult. The direction a car drives in cannot be changed by mods, so currently the only way to do this is to constantly track the position of the car and the tile it is currently on and then teleport it back in the direction of the road. Very demanding on the computer.
Ranakastrasz wrote:Suggest also having anti-pavement. As in, increases friction significantly.
Also, possible a setting that, I guess, changes the car's gears, which causes it to move very slowly, and take far more friction off of roads.
Also if pavement increased person movement speed it would be nice.
That's a very good suggestion! Some places on real roads have special shapes that slow cars down too. I'll make sure to add this sometime in the future.
I may distribute that as a separate addon for this mod. I feel that many people would hate the car being slow without roads.
As for moving faster on pavement, I'm currently trying to find out if there are any Lua modifiers implemented like they are for cars. If there aren't, I should be able to fake it by teleporting the character in the direction it's walking in, but it's not nearly the ideal solution to the problem.
OBAMA MCLAMA wrote:its about time, thanks a lot for this mod
Thank you! I did see a lot of suggestions asking for the things this mod adds, so I suppose I indeed came at the right time.
Re: [0.10.0] RoadWorks
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2014 9:01 pm
by FishSandwich
I.. really like this mod. I hope some of this stuff makes it into vanilla..
Re: [0.10.0] RoadWorks
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2014 9:31 pm
by Ranakastrasz
I didn't exactly say that it would be slower off of roads. So much as you can toggle that state somehow. That might not be possible however.
Might be possible to make it so that you slow down massively on hitting the edge of the road going off, then can speed back up after entirely leaving it.
Think of that as having a curb or a lip at the edge of the road, such that you hit a speedbump and lose a ton of speed.
Re: [0.10.0] RoadWorks
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2014 11:08 pm
by Airat9000
cool mod! thanks!
idea road to terrain Beauty in base
and could be a recipe to make asphalt from oil and waste just yet of oil and a couple of things
eg
stone and oil - asphalt
Additional with dytech f mod
Resource rutile
way with dytech work? and f mod?
and idea technology in open in resipe to realism
and
stone bridge
titan bridge
stone dock (pier)
titan dock (pier)
and that would be at the dock (pier), it was possible to put a wall to protect
Re: [0.10.0] RoadWorks
Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2014 12:11 am
by JamesOFarrell
Fantastic, I am not much of a car user but being able to give my factory something besides a dirt floor is awesome. Thanks.
Re: [0.10.0] RoadWorks
Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2014 12:08 pm
by Rahjital
FishSandwich wrote:I.. really like this mod. I hope some of this stuff makes it into vanilla..
Thank you! Yeah, I too hope we'll get to see roads and such in vanilla Factorio sooner or later. Especially because the mod API is fairly limited and most things have to be done in a very hacky way.
Ranakastrasz wrote:I didn't exactly say that it would be slower off of roads. So much as you can toggle that state somehow. That might not be possible however.
Might be possible to make it so that you slow down massively on hitting the edge of the road going off, then can speed back up after entirely leaving it.
Think of that as having a curb or a lip at the edge of the road, such that you hit a speedbump and lose a ton of speed.
Oh, I see what you mean now. That's a fairly good idea, too. I'll make sure to take a look at it.
Hmm, that's a much better solution. Could be done without too big of a performance hit, too. Man, you really are a treasury of good ideas!
Airat9000 wrote:cool mod! thanks!
idea road to terrain Beauty in base
and could be a recipe to make asphalt from oil and waste just yet of oil and a couple of things
eg
stone and oil - asphalt
Additional with dytech f mod
Resource rutile
way with dytech work? and f mod?
and idea technology in open in resipe to realism
and
stone bridge
titan bridge
stone dock (pier)
titan dock (pier)
and that would be at the dock (pier), it was possible to put a wall to protect
Thanks!
I might change the recipe for asphalt to require stone too, but you already need stone to make the cobblestone path and concrete and I don't really want every recipe in the mod to require stone.
I'm not sure if the mod works with DyTech or F-mod as I don't play with either, but I can do a quick test. RoadWorks should be compatible with pretty much every other mod, though, it makes no changes to the base game.
RoadWorks is designed to work with vanilla Factorio, so it's not going to contain anything to do with DyTech. It's modular, though, so making an addon containing titanium bridges would be very easy.
I'm not sure what do you mean with piers. Do you want bridges you could build on or something like that?
JamesOFarrell wrote:Fantastic, I am not much of a car user but being able to give my factory something besides a dirt floor is awesome. Thanks.
Thank you! I think you'll find the mod more useful once railroad bridges are added.
Re: [0.10.0] RoadWorks
Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2014 1:06 pm
by Vitduo
WRUM, WRUM, ow, here is a moderators
Interesting mod, I'll use it
Re: [0.10.0] RoadWorks
Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2014 5:33 pm
by sonnyskare
theit8514 wrote:
sonnyskare wrote:It'd be interesting if you could force the cars to stay on the pavement, so we never hit any buildings.
Similar to how the train moves except you could freely move.
I looked into this and it does not appear to be possible in the current modding API. The Orientation and Direction variables of entities are read-only. If they were not you could change the direction of the car using the ontick event.
Technically, you could make it where if you leave the road going over a certain speed, it would teleport you back onto the road using entity teleport method. Would look pretty strange though (and probably take a ton of CPU time).
Would it be possible to create an object which only the car collides with that has infinite health? I don't know what you guys can do so this is only a suggestion.
Re: [0.10.0] RoadWorks
Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2014 6:10 pm
by Ranakastrasz
Pretty sure custom collision is impossible.
Also, even if it was, that would splode the car.
Re: [0.10.0] RoadWorks
Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2014 7:39 pm
by Airat9000
Rahjital wrote:
FishSandwich wrote:I.. really like this mod. I hope some of this stuff makes it into vanilla..
2 idea
limestone (you resourse) + oil => asphalt
and other
pier
and bridge
Re: [0.10.0] RoadWorks
Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2014 8:42 pm
by Rahjital
sonnyskare wrote:Would it be possible to create an object which only the car collides with that has infinite health? I don't know what you guys can do so this is only a suggestion.
As Ranakastrasz said, there's no way to add custom collision masks yet - if there were, my job would be much easier.
Asphalt is supposed to come from refineries as a waste, I think I already took enough liberties with the recipe as it is. True, limestone isn't very useful currently, but that's going to change once concrete bridges are added. And even if that's not enough, limestone can be used for things like air pollution reduction (quicklime + water + electricity = slightly cleaner air).
I'm sorry but I still have no idea as of what do you mean by piers. How would they be different from bridges?
Re: [0.10.0] RoadWorks
Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2014 8:49 pm
by Airat9000
Rahjital wrote:
sonnyskare wrote:Would it be possible to create an object which only the car collides with that has infinite health? I don't know what you guys can do so this is only a suggestion.
As Ranakastrasz said, there's no way to add custom collision masks yet - if there were, my job would be much easier.
Asphalt is supposed to come from refineries as a waste, I think I already took enough liberties with the recipe as it is. True, limestone isn't very useful currently, but that's going to change once concrete bridges are added. And even if that's not enough, limestone can be used for things like air pollution reduction (quicklime + water + electricity = slightly cleaner air).
I'm sorry but I still have no idea as of what do you mean by piers. How would they be different from bridges?
Well pier in the form of land or ports, that there could be put walls, guns, etc. admissible if a lot of water that would reduce it to install walls and protection
Re: [0.10.0] RoadWorks
Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2014 3:52 pm
by Rensiur
Pretty cool idea, gonna give it a try.
And for the Pier that Airat mentions. I believe he thinks of something like Landfill, but just that you por tons of concrete into the water to build upon.
Basically like a land extension in a harbour or similar things.
Re: [0.10.0] RoadWorks
Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2014 8:11 pm
by perkel
Do i need to restart game for limestone to be found ?
Beauty in base